Outspan <borghiborghi@gmail.com> wrote in message <720c9267-219b-4960-b3cf-305240212df8@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>...

> > So I should use a matrix instead?

Yes.

> Obviously that's going to save> space, but the code is going to get ugly if I ever have to load> different kinds of data for the same record. > I just don't understand> why structs have to take up that much space.

Because that the tradeoff to be able to build a composite structure like this: